Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.
Song: ‘Spring all the graces of the age’Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
Neptune’s Triumph
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And all the Loves of time;
Bring all the pleasures of the stage,
And relishes of rhyme:
Add all the softnesses of Courts,
The looks, the laughters, and the sports:
And mingle all their sweets and salts
That none may say the triumph halts.